We have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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A snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.
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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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It isn’t enough to love people because they’re good to you, or because in some way or other you’re going to get something by it.
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it.
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